lowminded
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See also: low-minded
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]lowminded (comparative more lowminded, superlative most lowminded)
- Alternative form of low-minded
- 1799, William Jones, The works: in six volumes - Volume 4, page 120:
- ...nor were the benefits inconsiderable, which we had conferred on him nor was I lowminded and unambitious enough to aliene his property...
- 2013, Edward Short, Newman and his Family, →ISBN:
- I do not mean to say that Frank is positively lowminded, but he is decidedly not high minded, and I believe he does not, nor ever will, do you justice...
- 2009, Angus James Wrenn, Henry James and the Second Empire, →ISBN, page 74:
- ...James says that she was 'born in the Paris boulevard', and concludes that she 'was, in plain English, a very lowminded young woman.